A book review of "Measles and the Wrathmonk

Book Details

Ogilvy, I. (2003).Measle and the wrathmonk. United States:HarperCollins­ Publishers Inc.ISBN: 0-439–79925-2.

Synopsis and Evaluation

      Measle and the Wrathmonk is a children's fantasy and fiction novel showing a Colossal Adventures in a miniature world , written by Ian Raymond Ogilvy which he is an English-American actor, playwright, and novelist and born in 30th of September 1943 at Woking, United Kingdom. His book was illustrated by Chris Mould and released in 2004 by HarperCollins in the US.It received the Georgia Children's Book Award and translated into at least seven languages.

      

      Measle and the Wrathmonk is story a 10-year-old boy named Measle that lives with his horrid guardian, Basil Tramplebone. Measle's life is horrible and boring. Basil builds a detailed train set using money that was left for Measle by his parents and plays with it, while all Measle can do is watch him. Desperate to play with it, Measle tricks Basil into leaving the house by telling him that there is extra money in the bank. His plan backfires, and Basil catches him playing with the train set when he gets home and his life gets worse when Measle finds himself on the wrong end of one of Basil's evil spells. Basil magically shrinks Measle and placed him in the train set. Now he's half an inch tall and trapped in a toy train set. But when Measle joins up with Basil's other victims, he becomes more than just a smelly little boy as he meets Frank, the electrician who wired the train set, who is all plastic except for his mouth. Measle then feeds him some carrot, which restores Frank to his previous human-form.Frank reveals that the glazed-donut crumbs and lemonade left by Basil turn you to plastic if eaten. Together they continue Prudence, a wrathmonkologist; William, an encyclopedia salesman; Kitty, a Brownie scout; Lady Grant, a town official; and Kip, the carpenter who built the table and most of the train sets detail work.

   

    Ian Ogilvy wrote his book the way that he chooses words makes every chapter so vivid. Thus, because this is a chapter book geared for thirds and fourths, there are no pictures. So going through the chapter looking for good vocabulary words that I thought I could add up in my vocabulary and could help me to understand that word in context.His writing is a well written text it is because its organization of the parts are unique and clear.His word choice are very great and different that made his book interesting and the heart of his text is well conveyed that made everything wonderful.

The book of Ian Ogilvy aims to convey a message on how little people can make a big difference as like measle stubbs showed in the story. Correspondingly, the book will help to improve one’s knowledge and understanding in sundry words ,reading and writing.Thus, this book was much recommended for elementary students than high school students.

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References:

Ogilvy, I. (2003).Measle and the Wrathmonk. United States:HarperCollins­ Publishers Inc.

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Reviewers' Details

Hanna O. Tiu, SHS STEM Student, Science and Technology Education Center (Senior High School), in Basak, Lapu-Lapu City, Cebu 6015.